April 25, 2012

Center for Engagement and Community Development's 2012 Engagement Symposium Thursday

The Center for Engagement and Community Development's 2012 Engagement Symposium, "A Day of Learning: Communities Engaging Landscape," will be from 12-5 p.m., Thursday in the K-State Student Union.

The event will begin with open viewing of posters at 12 p.m. followed by a welcome by David Procter, the center's director, and the keynote address by Robin Moore. Moore's address is titled "Natural Learning Initiative." Both Procter's welcome and Moore's address will be hosted in the Flint Hills Room.

Moore has worked in the field of landscape architecture as an educator, researcher and consultant. He is an international authority on the design of children's play and learning environments, user needs research and participatory public open space design.

The remaining symposium agenda appears below:

2:15 p.m.Room 212 – "Engaging Communities through Gardens"

Alan Stevens"Our Community…A More Colorful Place"

Linda Teener"Planting Manhattan's Garden Together"

Cheryl Boyer"A Fruitful Partnership: The Kansas Health Foundation and K-State Research and Extension Community Gardening Grants"

Flint Hills Room – "Learning Gardens"

Lee Skabelund"Learning from Demonstration Rain-Gardens and Living Roofs"

Katie Kingery-Page"Landscape of Learning: Design Action Research in Manhattan, KS"